OPENING VOICE
Barbara Hill
Barbara Hill is from North Stonington. She graduated from Norwich Free Academy (69) and the University of CT. She has a Masters degree in creative writing from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
FEATURED POET
Jeffrey Harrison
Jeffrey Harrison’s sixth full-length book of poetry, Between Lakes, was published by Four Way Books in September 2020. His previous book, Into Daylight, won the Dorset Prize and was published by Tupelo Press in 2014, Incomplete Knowledge (2006) was runner-up for the Poets’ Prize, and Feeding the Fire (2001) won the Sheila Motton Award from the New England Poetry Club. His first book, The Singing Underneath, was selected by James Merrill for National Poetry Series in 1987.
MUSICIANS
Greg Piccolo and Bill Morrison
Former Roomful of Blues vocalist and saxman Greg Piccolo was born May 10, 1951 in Westerly, Rhode Island. At the age of 13 he was playing sax with a six-piece rock band, the Rejects. Two years later he joined Duke Robillard as a vocalist for the Variations, a British Invasion cover band. Piccolo rejoined Robillard in 1970 to create the first incarnation of Roomful of Blues, inspired by Buddy Johnson's R&B band.